Promotional Items - Top 5 Promotional Pens and Pencils

Promotional pens and pencils make for great promotional items. The promotional merchandise marketplace has become extremely complicated and saturated with man useful and not so useful promotional items, to the point where sometimes it's hard to separate them both.

If you are new to the promotional merchandise world hopefully the following items will give you an idea just want to look out for on the market when looking for promotional pens and pencils. These promotional products are very usable and are great promotional items to distribute to get your name out into the environment.

Budget ball point pens - probably the number one stationary item in the promotional merchandise world, if not probably the number one item. These pens are a great a corporate giveaway item, which is bound to be used by the recipient. They are a great long lasting item with most pens lasting for approximately 2 miles of ink.

Wooden pencils - Another great cost effective item and probably one of the first modern day writing instruments. The concept behind the pencil was first used by the ancient Egyptians and romans. The word pencil comes from the Latin term of pencillus which means little tail. Promotional pencils scream great value and are a great item for students doing multiple choice exams.

Rollerballs - This great writing instrument is renowned for its smooth writing quality. Although these great promotional items may have an increased cost to them, they are great looking, great feeling and great writing instruments, which does make up for the extra cost.

Highlighters - Promotional highlighters are often overlooked just because these promotional stationary items aren't used as much as others, but when they are needed, no other stationary item can do the job like these can. The variety of promotional highlighters on today's market really is what makes this item a great piece of promotional merchandise. Promotional highlighters come in all different shapes, sizes, colours and types. It has in recent years become a trend to incorporate more than one colour highlighter into a single piece of stationary, for example a triangle with 3 highlighters, a star with 5 high lighters, and it's even possible to make an 8 highlighter item, which can only be called an Octo-Highlighter.

Metal Executive Pens - Sometimes pens are just a tad more than a writing instrument, they are a statement, a statement to stature, wealth and job title. For example if someone has a nice looking parker pen, you will know they like good quality writing instruments, maybe at a manager level, senior member of staff sort of stature. On the other hand if you see a man with a stylish Mont Blanc, you know he will be at executive senior managerial level. To them they aren't as bothered about the writing quality as they probably don't do a lot of writing with, they are mainly for signing cheques and contracts. This item just shows you that not all promotional merchandise has to be cheap low budget items, when it comes to corporate gifts and business gifts, promotional merchandise has to step up a level.

So from this list you can see that promotional merchandise does have an extensive range from corporate giveaways to promotional gifts, and this is only a few items of stationary, in reality the number of promotional products on the market is endless.


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